The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

user132126

01:06

@NapoleonWilson I've been on Lit like once or twice ever, so I'm not sure. But, I seem to be aware that a great deal of active literature users, at least during beta, were also heavy SFF users, so it's possible that our system cross-polinated into theirs.

user132126

Hmm, I see you've made a poster-design tag, or at least started using it. I've often considered just doing a straight up merchandise for all products related to SFF-dom in question.

user132126

I did add it for one of my own questions, but it hasn't been used very consistently and barely at all, despite a large number of applicable questions.
See https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154787/why-was-this-onslaught-toy-sold-as-red-skull.

xkcd

04:06

If you study graphs in which edges can link more than two nodes, you're more properly called a hyperedgelord.

Aurelius

05:44

woo I can't believe my questions on this site have done so well

Alex

05:56

@Aurelius You're questions have done well for me too.

Aurelius

:D This is true

that notification made me jump out of my skin

Alex

@Aurelius You can turn it off if you don't like it.

I think.

Yeah, by clicking on the speaker icon in the upper right.

Aurelius

I did right before I posted that ;)

Alex

@Aurelius You can also ignore a specific user, if I annoy you.

Aurelius

@Alex I'll be sure to keep that in mind

@Alex Thanks for the tips

:P

Alex

06:08

@Aurelius No problem.

Aurelius

isn't stackoverflow about to hit 10 years?

in about 3 weeks :D very cool

SQB

06:45

Wow, cool new feature! New users are marked as such.

Mithrandir

Mhm. Personally I'm skeptical of its usefulness but I haven't written it off yet.

Alex

@Mithrandir A lot of the responses on the Meta post that introduced it were also skeptical... or worse.

Loong

@Alex And, as usual, SE simply ignored that. :-(

Alex

@Loong I think one went so far as to say that this will be the downfall of Stack Exchange.

Sorry, but this makes Stack Exchange a social network, by focusing on the users, and not on content. Something it tried not to be. Stack Exchange has lost its unique place among Q&A sites, and I'm afraid that with time people will realize it (as quality will start dropping sharply), and move to one of the many other Q&A sites. — Shadow Wizard yesterday

Loong

It's probably not so terrible for the site, but still a bad idea and totally unnecessary.

SQB

07:01

Damn.

reddit.com/r/europe/comments/995vn6/…

> Lazy Town star, Stefán Karl Stefansson, dead at 43 after two year battle with cancer

@Alex when people are interacting on a network, it's naive to think it's not a social network.

Mithrandir

07:20

@NewQuestion remind me vaguely of The Host, but I doubt it

TheLethalCarrot

08:46

@Jenayah Start ats don't always work with YouTube links, best to leave the comment of where it's supposed to start

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot aw shit, sorry didn't know that, always worked fine here

rollbacked

TheLethalCarrot

Most of the time it does but better to be on the safe side

Well you could have left the start at link but just kept the comment in haha

Jenayah

gaaaah

I give up :)

TheLethalCarrot

2 mods come in at once, RUN AWAAAAY!!

Napoleon Wilson

@TheLethalCarrot They used to. But they have extended the functionality of YouTube embedding quite a bit some time ago. Since then I didn't notice problems with time links.

TheLethalCarrot

08:55

@NapoleonWilson I've still had a couple of problems so always better to be safer with it

Rand al'Thor

@WebHead I'm not quite sure what you mean by an ID system, but there are a lot of other SE sites which take ID questions. The more I go nosing around the network, the more I begin to think A&M and M&TV are exceptions rather than the norm.

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot Got something to feel guilty about?

TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah Always

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah Oh, he knows... ;-(

Rand al'Thor

@TheLethalCarrot <insert Monty Python and the Holy Grail gif>

Jenayah

08:56

What's the story? :p

TheLethalCarrot

@Randal'Thor What I was going for... thanks :P

SQB

We should've just created an Identification.StackExchange.com and be done with it.

Mithrandir

@TheLethalCarrot ಠ_ಠ

TheLethalCarrot

Meh, I like id questions

Napoleon Wilson

Like ELU created ELL as garbage bin? ;-P

Jenayah

09:00

@SQB voting to close as "too broad". :p

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Some ELL people might object to that phrasing ;-)

Mithrandir

@SQB That's been shot down by SE several times.

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor I hope some users would too.

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Fixed.

Napoleon Wilson

Thanks.

Rand al'Thor

09:05

And one of their high-rep users is now a supermod, so better watch out :-P

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I wasn't entirely serious. But it was created out of an ELU initiative, if I'm informed correctly.

(And some of the mods might go congruent with the assessment that it's at least used as a garbage bin from there.)

Rand al'Thor

There's also the two Russian sites, Русский язык and Russian Language. Not sure what the history is there (or indeed what the difference is between the two).

Mithrandir

Pretty sure essentially the same as ELU and ELL. Also, Русский язык is entirely in Russian.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor didn't notice the difference? Open a random question on the former, you'll see ;)

Napoleon Wilson

As much as I know one is a classic primarily English-based (but bilingual) SE site about a foreign language not too dissimilar to German Language or French Language, while the other one is a site in Russian for Russian.

Rand al'Thor

09:11

@Jenayah I thought the latter also allowed questions entirely in Russian, but maybe I'm wrong.

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Maybe, but the entirety of the UI is in Russian on the former. And I doubt it allows English questions.

Rand al'Thor

Yep.

I guess SE is more able/willing to support a Russian-in-Russian site than for languages like French and German, since they already have a Russian SO.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor they have a Spanish SO también. (and a Portuguese one também :p)

Napoleon Wilson

I don't know how it came about. It might have a more intricate history than a normal Area51 process.

Russian SO certainly has.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson grabs popcorn

Napoleon Wilson

09:14

It's...not the stuff of movies really. ;-) It was just an independent SO clone in Russian for Russians. At some point it merged into SE and its creator/maintainer got hired as CM.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson oh, okay

Napoleon Wilson

The other sites, like Japanese and Portuguese went throught the normal Area51 community building as much as I know.

(Although, it requires a little more traction and resurces than your normal SE niche site, since SE needs extra resources for it, starting with CMs speaking the language.)

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Oh really? TIL.

@NapoleonWilson Yeah. There is (or was) a Turkish SO which stuck at the end of the Area 51 process for years, because it had more than enough committers but SE didn't have a Turkish CM.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor still not one, of they've stopped looking?

Napoleon Wilson

09:45

Not sure they ever looked. As SE I'd rather treat it as a bonus if an employee spoke a language I could use for starting a niche site, rather than a requirement.

But...I'm not SE, maybe the language-based SOs have a higher priority than your normal niche site because they're SOs and thus the core business.

Rand al'Thor

Yeah, I'd assume so. If they can extend their reach as "the go-to programming Q&A site" to places like Russia and Brazil, that's going to be good for the company.

They rejected the idea of a Portuguese SU, even though it got more than enough Area 51 commitment and they already have the language resources to do it.

Napoleon Wilson

It splits the expertise, though. But maybe that's more of a user worry and less of a company worry.

Jenayah

10:16

2

Q: Were Dementor effects targeted?

Dementors seemed to have had some distance effects on humans - the feeling of coldness, moral depression, darkness. Is there canon evidence that these area effects were targeted at specific individuals (or that Dementors excluded individuals from such effects)? Or was the effect 100% determined...

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Q: Can a dementor decide which people around it will be affected by its magic?

Quoting from here and here: From a Leaky Cauldron chat: Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses....

harry-potter dementors

I have honestly no idea which one should be the dupe-target. Both questions and answers are good.

Recommendations?

TheLethalCarrot

Only one has an accepted answer with quotes

I've only had a skim so I'd say that as the target but I'm not familiar enough with HP

Rand al'Thor

I want to close the older one (DVK's) as a dupe of the newer one (user13267's). But I may be biased since the accepted answer to the newer one is mine.

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot true but the other one is still argued

Rand al'Thor

Also, since they both have good answers, this seems like a candidate for merging.

TheLethalCarrot

Could always merge aye

Jenayah

10:21

What's the flag then?

Rand al'Thor

Maybe I'll flag for another mod to merge, again since I have an accepted answer there.

Jenayah

Wait. Chat is the flag x)

SQB

I prefer the one with an accepted answer that uses quotes.

Perhaps ask on meta?

TheLethalCarrot

@Randal'Thor The answers all copy over so the merge is mainly on the questions no? Shouldn't really be a conflict of interest

Rand al'Thor

@TheLethalCarrot Well, merging one way will rob me of a checkmark, merging the other way won't :-)

SQB

10:23

Which of the two accepted answers will remain accepted after the merge?

@Randal'Thor so merge the selfless way.

TheLethalCarrot

@Randal'Thor True, I prefer the question with your answer but the answer on the other to stay accepted and that sin't possible so dunno which is best

(Or I don't think that is possible)

Rand al'Thor

Yeah, that isn't possible.

TheLethalCarrot

Which is a pain

Jenayah

What's a synonym for "knowingness"?

TheLethalCarrot

Though both questioners are around so could ask them to re-accept which they think is best?

Jenayah

10:25

Not much good shows up in my online translator

TheLethalCarrot

To avoid conflict of interest or whatever

Rand al'Thor

Funny that DVK asked one question and answered the other.

I guess when you've been on the site that long, you forget some of your own questions.

TheLethalCarrot

I forget questions I've answered and start writing an answer again and I haven't been here that long haha

SQB

@Randal'Thor I definitely have.

Jenayah

Is it me, or you can throw three random, unconnected words at @FuzzyBoots and that will automatically remind him of an obscure short story/book/whatever he read 20+ years ago? :p

Mithrandir

10:36

Let's see....

Rand al'Thor

Btw: congrats on 80k, @FuzzyBoots!

Mithrandir

Pickle, cyborg, penguin! Let's see what that remind him of ;P

Jenayah

@Mithrandir for what it's worth, there's all three of those in my "current online RPG", ahah

FuzzyBoots

11:09

@Jenayah ^_^ Not quite. But I read a lot, and my memory gets spotty after a few decades.

@Randal'Thor Thank you. It kind of snuck up on me.

Jenayah

11:23

@FuzzyBoots eheh

SQB

11:34

@FuzzyBoots cue Jaws music.

Jenayah

@SQB were you present that time I linked the video about how the most popular French news broadcast's theme was derived from the Jaws theme?

SQB

Yeah, I've seen it.

Jenayah

That thing is incredible

SQB

Here's another one. Warning: once heard, cannot be unheard.

The Mary Poppins Imperial March

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I've actually practised seguing seamlessly from one to the other.

Here's another version

a spoonful of imperial death sugar

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Although you want to hit pause after 45 seconds.

Jenayah

Yeah, I realized that at 46 seconds ahah

thought that was another ad or something

Can be unheard, though. Funny but already forgotten, here's the perks of not being a SW fan :)

Rand al'Thor

11:52

@Jenayah Oh good, someone else who's not a SW fan :-)

Jenayah

Especially since I'm already looping a soundtrack, to be honest.

04 Mine - Hans Zimmer - Broken Arrow Score

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The movie isn't bad; it's just a repeat of hundreds of other action movies: bad guy is pissed, bad guy does bad guy things (involving stealing nukes), good guy stops bad guy and gets the girl. There's one line of this movie, however, which is just hilariously memorable:

> Giles Prentice: A Broken what?

> Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

> Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

Napoleon Wilson

Heh, that's a really nice soundtrack. Quite an underrated action classic.

@Jenayah It has a really interesting and desolate setting, though.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson to be honest, I can't help but think the Pirates of the Carribean memorable theme was influenced by Broken Arrow's soundtrack. Makes sense: Badelt learned a lot from Zimmer.

Napoleon Wilson

Many action movies are just a repeat of a classic action movie story. Doesn't mean you can't implement it really well, though.

@Jenayah Well, you could aslo say Zimmer has a tendency to repeat himself sometimes. But that's natural, there's only so many different pieces you can compose.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson oh, I liked the movie just fine ahah. I'm generally happy with whatever action movie including Travolta you can throw at me :)

Napoleon Wilson

12:01

Heh, of course!

Jenayah

Face/Off is in my top something of movies I loved.

Napoleon Wilson

See, I would go as far as saying I'd like Broken Arrow more than Face/Off.

Not to say that Face/Off isn't nice. But Broken Arrow just had the cooler setting to me and the overall smaller scale. John Woo wasn't yet entirely devoured by Wooisms.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson honestly, Face/Off would really have benefitted from having the first cast it was supposed to have (Stallone/Schwarzenegger). Escape Plan exists, sure... but it was made 20 years too late and come on, when you've seen Face/Off that "Omg the prison is a boat!!" thing is less striking :/

Hey, I found the part which reminded me of Pirates of the Carribean.

05 Nuke - Hans Zimmer - Broken Arrow Score

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Pirates of the Caribbean - He's a Pirate (Extended)

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Similar, I reckon

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm, I can't really say anything against the cast there, though. But true, a Stallone-Schwarzenegger, uh, faceoff, during their height would have been nice, too.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson yeah... That thing will be missed. :/

Though Escape Plan is still fun to watch! It was just made too late

Napoleon Wilson

12:07

Yeah, it was nice, but nothing too special.

Jenayah

Yeah...

SQB

Since activity has increased lately, I'll switch the ticker feed (for main site questions) to a message feed later this week. If you have any objections, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Jenayah

For instance, The Last Stand was GREAT because it spent the whole time making fun and self-derision about Schwarzenegger being old now.

C'mon, that final fight on the bridge. Kung-Fu-trained 30-years-old Mexican drug dealer VS Grandpa Schwarzy with a paunch. What's more to ask?

TheLethalCarrot

@SQB And if anyone has any objections to getting rid of the ticker feed, get out

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah Hmm, I found it good for the setting. I didn't have the impression that it was too self-deprecating, which...I might not have appreciated that much.

@SQB Peace or piece?

Rand al'Thor

12:15

Peace. (Or is that a pun?)

Napoleon Wilson

Neither.

Maybe.

Jenayah

Nocontext at work: coming back after fetching a chocolate and hearing the other guy saying on the phone "Yeah, I do Samba now, I think it's great because it's much faster that what I was doing before."

Google says that apart from the Brazilian dance, it's apparently also an Ubuntu server thingy, but I didn't know that, ahah

Napoleon Wilson

I wouldn't put the other interpretation beyond a phone call either, though. But I guess it depends on the setting/conversation partner.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson well he's apparently talking to another guy in the company, so I don't think they're discussing the next Rio carnival :)

Napoleon Wilson

I was talking to my colleagues about my hobbies all the time. ;-)

In fact, one of them was quite into dancing.

Jenayah

12:27

Which kind of dancing?

Napoleon Wilson

Uh, many kinds. I wouldn't wonder if she tried samba at one point either.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson as long as it wasn't outside, during the cold German winter or something, ahah

Rand al'Thor

Talking about Latin American dancing? Where's @Tango when you need him?

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah I'd wager the dance lessons are generally held inside.

You make it sound like samba requires, uh, let's say Brazilian Carnival levels of clothing. ;-)

That would have worked this summer, though.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson I don't see why I would ever have to question my stereotypical views, brought to me by newsfeed when said Carnival takes place and the fact that I've never put a toe in a samba lesson. :p

Anonymous

12:37

So, I just discovered.. when you click on an image on the xkcd site, they have quirky image titles. xkcd is awesome.

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I wouldn't know either. I know zero about dancing.

SQB

@IceInkberry yes, they do. Hovering over them does it as well.

Jenayah

@IceInkberry works with hovering over the oneboxed ones on SE chat, by the way

@NapoleonWilson ahah, same.

Let's have a thought for my poor mother, who had to handle 4-years-old me deliberately refusing to go to that classical dance lesson I had unwillingly been signed up to.

Anonymous

@SQB Ohh, I use phone that's why I never discovered them.

SQB

@Jenayah that counts as self-inflicted.

@IceInkberry I use an app; there are several, most if not all should have the alt texts.

Jenayah

12:42

@SQB oh, sure. But even then, beware my 4-years-old tantrums.

Funny enough, her "it improves the arms' and legs' movements, the coordination, and it requires fitness" arguments from back then aren't heard again when she speaks about me doing kickboxing.

Napoleon Wilson

Whoa.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson yeah, I think the pink tutu and ballet shoes make all the difference.

Ballet shoes don't protect very well when you deliver a high kick to the head, though.

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Napoleon Wilson

I'd guess the tutu gives some freedom for leg movement, though. ;-)

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson oh yeah, ballerinas can definitely throw their feet quite high, but tracksuit/boxing shorts offer the same freedom of movement :)

It was a common thing for cancan dancers, I think. The guys were "warned" that if they got too close, they could receive a fast high kick to the chin.

Well, of course a "western saloon" cancan dancer wasn't very likely to be able to defend herself against several determined "good ol' guys of the West", but hey, the legends...

Rand al'Thor

Roundtable Rival - Lindsey Stirling

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Zaphod

12:58

2

Q: Night's Dawn, The Naked God confusion

I'm re-reading the Peter Hamilton Night's Dawn trilogy and am confused at this extract from book 3 (I think each book was in 2 parts in the USA) The Naked God - chapter 8. Louise and her sister Genevieve have journeyed from an agricultural planet and have never received neural implant fleks...

nights-dawn-trilogy

Jenayah

1 Hour of Wild Western Music

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(Rowdy Cowboys for the win)

Rand al'Thor

13:14

@Jenayah Thanks, I've set this to play in the background.

I'll try ~~anything~~ ~~most things~~ a lot of things once.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor that compilation is great

@Randal'Thor like what?

Rand al'Thor

Speaking about music here.

That's not really a good reflection of my attitude though :-P Most things that most people around me listen to, I'll reject as "modern rubbish".

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor just /ignore them :p

Edlothiad

Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

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You only need 4 chords.

Might have fruitful language, they're Australian

@Randal'Thor Lindsey Stirling is pretty awesome

Rand al'Thor

in The troll, Aug 13 at 10:08, by Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Meh. She's got nothing on Mairead Nesbitt when it comes to prancy violin playing.

Edlothiad

13:28

@Randal'Thor Who's got nothing on Nina Nesbitt when it comes to being a famous musician?

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor Metal with cellos isn't bad either

Apocalyptica - Reflections (Full Album)

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user132126

@Randal'Thor We have a huge "rule set" for ID questions, a large variety of tags, and a system where we combine tags that would otherwise be considered useless meta tags, in order to get the full tag. So instead of movie-character-identification we have movie + character-identification.

Rand al'Thor

Ah, I should have known (coming from you) that you were talking about the tagging system ;-)

user132126

:D

Rand al'Thor

~~Web~~ Tag Head?

Edlothiad

13:37

@WebHead We also have genres, sub-genres, types of a certain media, whatever category young-adult fits in, etc.

user132126

Yeah.

user132126

It'd get pretty complex to have individual tags for all that.

Corvo Attano

16:16

0

Q: What font do the buttons at the top of the page on Netflix use?

I have been working on something that would add some buttons to the Netflix browsing page for easier browsing and would like to know what font the buttons (the "Home", "TV Shows", "Movies", "Recently Added" and "My List" ones) use.

font-identification

Jenayah

@CorvoAttano might be a silly thought, but did you simply try to go underwater?

I'm on the phone right now so can't do, but it works sometimes

Also, that looks like the default one we had for a project this year, I'll see if I can fetch it from here

Corvo Attano

Underwater?

Napoleon Wilson

I...have a feeling "underwater" doesn't mean what I think it does.

Jenayah

CTRL shift I

Corvo Attano

I tried, it didn't select the font @Jenayah

Jenayah

16:27

Dunno if that's the official name

Corvo Attano

Inspect element

Jenayah

Yeah and then you browse the CSS or stuff

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :p

Corvo Attano

I'm trying to make a Firefox extension to add a dropdown thing to the home page with all the hidden category links on Netflix.

HTML is kinda fun and I don't have much else to do

Jenayah

Never used Netflix to be honest, so I don't really know what you're talking about :)

Napoleon Wilson

I used it the first free month when they started here. But...the selection wasn't overwhelming back then (don't know if it's now) so I didn't continue. I used the chance to binge Breaking Bad during a cold, though.

doppelgreener

16:31

i haven't heard going underwater before as the term for that, i just hear "inspecting the page"

Napoleon Wilson

Amazon Prime costs half as much and includes free shipping for...about everything.

Corvo Attano

But Netflix has The Office...

Jenayah

@doppelgreener oh, ok :) always referred to it as "underwater view"

Corvo Attano

And it feels like most of the stuff on Amazon Prime Video isn't free and they want you to buy it.

Jenayah

It's not impossible that I was pranked and kept the wrong name, though

Napoleon Wilson

16:34

There's enough free stuff, though. And I'd wager about as much as on Netflix or any other of those streaming services. Of course the selections are probably somewhat exclusive or overlapping, but...I'm not going to subscribe to 5 million of these monthly-paid things. So I'll always have some things and not others.

Jenayah

You have an answer, btw, dunno if you've noticed yet

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah Well, once you know it, it tends to make some sense.

Jenayah

On an unrelated note, the Dutch just can't stop. Seriously, I've accepted the fact that they can bike and text at the same time. Ok. But I've just seen a woman biking while eating a salad. A freaking salad, with the fork and all. @SQB, you guys are overdoing it.

Napoleon Wilson

16:50

I've seen people eat sushi and sandwiches while driving cars.

Rand al'Thor

Driving cars doesn't require keeping your balance.

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm, also true.

The car's balance maybe, but okay.

SQB

I've seen a laptop support that attaches to your steering wheel, "to be used when parked".

But yeah, eating a salad on a bike is overdoing it.

And I loathe people using their smartphone in traffic.

Both while riding a bike or while driving a car.

Jenayah

17:11

@NapoleonWilson sandwich can be eaten one-handed, and you're supposedly sitting in your car. Much more balance.

@SQB it's blight, but seriously, on a bike, it's impressive.

Napoleon Wilson

Sure sure.

Jenayah

17:33

@CorvoAttano browsed through this project I was talking about, but the files I have on this computer did not contain the font's name... For what it's worth, it was part of the very very basic Meteor Blaze application tutorial, if you wanna dig further

Rand al'Thor

18:15

The Season 19 Safety Video with Tegan Jovanka | Doctor Who

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Mithrandir

@Jenayah I only use my phone on my bike when I'm riding in circles waiting for something :D

Jenayah

@Mithrandir by making a call, or writing a text? Big difference I reckon

Mithrandir

browsing the 'net :P

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Like Stack Exchange?

Mithrandir

Yes.

Alex

18:25

Posting this while riding my bike.

Jenayah

People are awesome.

Alex

Thanks.

I was joking, by the way.

Jenayah

Having seen Dutch people texting while biking, joke or no joke it's plausible.

Alex

@Jenayah How about texting while unicycling?

Jenayah

@Alex what's "uncycling"?

Alex

18:34

@Jenayah Fixed.

Jenayah

Oh

Well, no idea, but I'm pretty sure some Dutch people can do that too.

Alex

What about texting while hoola hooping while riding a unicycle on a tightrope?

Jenayah

Hey @SQB, given how every Dutch person has two legs and two wheels, is a Dutch person unicycling considered a cripple?

@Alex whatever your current job is, Alex, if you can do that kind of thing, drop everything and enroll in a circus. Or make your own YouTube channel, I reckon that's the 2010s way to do it.

Alex

@Jenayah I think answering stack Exchange questions is a tad more profitable.

Jenayah

@Alex yeah, I don't know how much you get paid for that, but a hoola hoop always outranks it.

Mithrandir

18:40

<--would eventually like to create a YouTube channel but doesn't actually have any skills to make interesting videos

Alex

@Mithrandir Those are the best channels.

Jenayah

@Mithrandir who needs skills? Adopt a cat

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Why do you want a Youtube channel then?

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor I like singing and playing piano, but I'm not actually that skilled :D

SQB

@Jenayah only if a one-legged person does it.

But seriously, I tried it and it is hard.

Jenayah

18:47

@SQB did you cut your own leg for added immersion?

SQB

@Mithrandir how about playing piano while riding a bike?

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Surely it's only worth having a Youtube channel if you're sufficiently confident that whatever you put there will be interesting/entertaining ...

Mithrandir

@SQB I'd love to - I've been looking for a keyboard that's small enough and portable enough to do that, actually, but no luck

@Randal'Thor This is why I don't have a YouTube channel.

Jenayah

Barak Tzori Piano Bike Ride

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SQB

I think you could do it with cleats.

Well, a single cleat, actually.

Rand al'Thor

18:49

@Mithrandir Sure, I'm just wondering why you want one in that case ;-)

Mithrandir

@SQB Yeah, need the other foot available in case of emergency :D

SQB

@Jenayah three wheels is cheating.

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Haven't clicked, but hoping that's as awesome as it looks.

Have you all seen the Unipiper, btw?

PotatoLatte

It looks so cool

SQB

Bakfiets parking.

Jenayah

18:51

@SQB what about having a mate playing the piano while you're the one riding?

Rand al'Thor

Man Shoveling Snow on a Unicycle Dressed as Darth Vader While Playing Flaming Bagpipes

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@SQB @Jenayah ^

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor AHAHAHAHAH

SQB

@Randal'Thor thread won.

Rand al'Thor

Check the guy's Youtube channel. He's got loads of stunts like this.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Performed on Flaming Bagpipes and Unicycle in Portland, OR

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Darth Vader Santa Rides the Death Star and Plays Flaming Bagpipes

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SQB

Party bike

A party bike, fietscafé, bierfiets, pedal crawler, pedal pub, beer bike or bierbike is a multi-passenger human powered vehicle, invented in 1997 by Het Fietscafe BV from the Netherlands. A party bike is sometimes mistaken for a larger-scale version of a pedicab, but it is not, since the party bike is powered by the passengers while the steering and braking is controlled by a driver who does not provide pedaling power. Some also double as rolling refreshment stands. Human-powered party bikes have been in use for decades and have grown into several families of vehicles for a variety of purposes,...

Seen those yet?

Hated by everyone except the riders themselves.

Jenayah

18:57

@SQB Rule 34 on the Internet: "if it exists, there's a porn version of it." Rule 34 in the Netherlands: "If it exists, there's a bike version of it."

@SQB nope

SQB

There's probably a combination of those two as well, but I'm not gonna go look for it.

Jenayah

@SQB yuk

SQB

19:30

Is Lazytown on topic? And should we have an obituary for Stefán Karl Stefánsson?

Alex

23:35

Are the five answers to this question actually different from each other? The main thrust of all of them seems to be the same thing.

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Q: Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?

The prophecy doesn't merely say "he will mark him", it says and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal When talking about the prophecy, Dumbledore says "Voldemort himself would mark him as his equal... He chose you, not Neville. He gave you the scar" (OotP) So Dumbledore says that V...

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